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Improved bulk upload tool launched for National Minimum Data Set for Social Care

News release 21 July 2011

After consultation with employers, Skills for Care has launched an improved bulk upload tool to make it easier for large employers to add large amounts of their data to the National Minimum Data Set for Social Care (NMDS-SC).

The improvements to the Bulk Uploading Data Items (BUDI) facility includes the introduction of a Unique Worker ID which means the system won’t automatically replace all worker records when an upload takes place.

A status column has also been added to set each record within an organisation to reflect whether it is an update, a new record, a deletion, a change and if any particular record had not been checked.

The updates now allow the qualification code and the year into the same cell, which can be repeated in separate cells for each qualification achieved by that particular worker. 

The old version of the Bulk Upload tool will continue to be accepted for six months to ensure users have time to change any systems or processes they may have in place. 

All guidance documents have been updated and you can find these by going to the resources section on the NMDS-SC website.

If users have any questions regarding BUDI please contact the NMDS-SC Helpdesk on 0845 873 0129, which is open Monday to Friday 8:30am – 5:30pm